4 NEW YORK POLICE OFFICERS REPORTEDLY INDICTED IN TORTURE CASE

A grand jury Wednesday indicted at least four police officers on charges of torturing drug suspects with an electric stun gun to force confessions, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.

The charges included second-degree assault, possession of a dangerous weapon and official misconduct, the Daily News said.

Four officers reportedly named in the indictments--Sgt. Richard Pike and officers Jeffrey Gilbert, Michael Aranda and Loren MacCary--have been ordered to surrender to authorities Thursday, two defense lawyers told United Press International.

All four were suspended without pay and arrested last week for allegedly torturing drug suspects with a stun gun at the 106th precinct house in Queens, dubbed the ''Torture Precinct'' in the wake of the charges.

The integrity officer at the precinct also was suspended, but not arrested.

A spokesman for Queens District Atty. John Santucci refused to confirm or deny that indictments had been issued.

The Daily News reported that Bebe Davis, the grand jury foreman, handed eight indictments to Criminal Court Judge Paul Appleman late Wednesday and that they then were sealed at the request of a Queens assistant district attorney pending a formal announcement.

The Daily News said Davis told the judge the jury voted for the indictments Tuesday, the first day of the panel`s deliberations.

It was not immediately clear whether more than four officers were charged or whether the same policemen were named in separate indictments.

Pike and Gilbert, who were both involved in the case that broke the stun- gun torture scandal, were charged with second-degree assault, possession of a dangerous weapon and official misconduct, the Daily News said.

Narcotics suspect Mark Davidson, 18, testified before the grand jury that Pike and Gilbert repeatedly burned him with a stun gun April 17.

Four other alleged stun-gun victims went before the Queens grand jury Tuesday.

Meanwhile, a lawyer in Brooklyn filed a complaint Wednesday with prosecutors charging police beat a pregnant woman and two friends with a spiked club, causing the woman to miscarry.

Also in Brooklyn, a police officer was arrested Wednesday and suspended without pay on charges he seized a woman and threw her against a wall outside an abortion clinic where he was protesting abortion.